Daily Archives: May 23, 2024
Don’t downplay the impact of the ICC indictment of Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s domestic and American political opponents are not all cheering the decision of the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to call for indictments of both the Israeli leader...
Rutgers, Northwestern, UCLA leaders testify before House committee about Jew-hatred
U.S. House of Representative members confronted the heads of Rutgers University, Northwestern University and the University of California, Los Angeles on Thursday about their responses to antisemitism and anti-Israel protests on their respective campuses...
SC governor sends ‘clear, unified message’ signing Jew-hatred bill into law
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster signed H. 4042, a bill that codifies the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism, into state law on Thursday.
“Following the brutal terrorist attacks on Israel, we have seen...
Three US soldiers hurt, one critically, on Gaza pier
Three U.S. soldiers reportedly sustained non-combat injuries on the temporary pier off the coast from Gaza on Thursday.
The U.S. military didn’t comment on one of the soldiers, who was taken to a local hospital reportedly with...
At JPAC California summit, state leaders vow support for Jewish community
Some 500 Jewish leaders, community members and college students from across the state of California turned out to the Jewish Public Affairs Committee of California (JPAC) Capitol Summit, held at the Sheraton Grand Hotel...
‘Perfect time’ to return to Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ on 120th Bloomsday
Cultural pilgrims flock to Dublin annually on June 16 to celebrate the inside-baseball, literary “holiday” Bloomsday, which marks the single day upon which James Joyce’s 1922 novel Ulysses is set.
“Hands up how many people have read...
Lawsuit names WESPAC as ‘official fiscal sponsor’ of pro-Hamas protests
A report in The Washington Free Beacon links an activist foundation to Students for Justice in Palestine, the anti-Israel group fueling protests and anti-Jewish hate on college campuses across North America.
A lawsuit filed by some of the families...
House Ed Committee to review Northwestern’s ties to ‘Al Jazeera’
The House Committee on Education and the Workforce has contacted the Coalition Against Antisemitism at Northwestern (CAAN) University for information about its academic alliance with the Qatar-based Al Jazeera news network, according to The Washington Free Beacon.
CAAN sent...
Jew-hatred ‘explosion’ since Oct. 7, senior UK official says
Jews have not been safe since Hamas’s terror attack on Oct. 7, and “we have seen where the unchecked growth of antisemitism has led in the past,” Michael Gove, UK secretary of state for...
Pro-Hamas group got $50 million US grant under Inflation Reduction Act, senator says
Democrats in Washington awarded a $50 million grant, under the Inflation Reduction Act, to the pro-Hamas and antisemitic group Climate Justice Alliance in December, according to Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.).
“We went to the...